Hi
Hope somebody can help me.
I have an elderly english friend who has been resident in Turkey for approx 6 years now.
About 4 years ago my friend befriended a local deaf woman who made her living plating hair for tourists on the beach etc during the summer season. This woman had lived in this part of Turkey for years having moved away from her family who she did not get on with.
My friend actually married this girl. Being the kind man that he is and having been in his 80s with his wife being half his age - he decided to buy two apartments - one for his wife to live in and the other for her to rent out after he had passed away, to provide her with an income - knowing that due to her deafness her opportunity to earn a descent wage was very limited.
To ensure that his wife would be guaranteed both apartments after his death he simply put them in her name.
This has proved to have been a BIG mistake as very sadly my friends wife became very ill and passed away in November of last year due to a very aggressive lung cancer. Nobody expected for my friends wife to pass away first being in her 40s and my friend being in his 80s.
However since both of the apartments had been registered in my friend's wife's name we now have some of her family coming 'out of the woodwork' mainly from Istanbul - we are in Antalya- wanting to claim half of 'her' property.

Now my question is that keeping these unique circumstnaces in mind and where its clear that because of my friends wife disabillity she clearly would never had the means to buy property is there any way to contest the automatic inheritance law? It also appears that her family cared very little about her while she was alive and if it hadnt been for my friend she would still be on the streets scraping a living together.
My friend has employed a solicitor- however he has not been very clear or helpful.

Any information would be appreciated